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...families.- 1987. Early efforts in Congress to amend the law to cover family members failed. Reagan's ImmigrationandNaturalizationService commissioner announced that minor children of parents granted amnesty by the law would get protection...

...United States the ability to stay and work without fear of being removed.Until the Lennon case, the ImmigrationandNaturalizationService had not acknowledged it used its own discretion in deciding whom to deport. But through the Freedom of...

...status to up to 3 million immigrants who had no authorization to be in the country in 1986, Reagan's ImmigrationandNaturalizationService expanded the program to cover minor children of parents granted amnesty. Spouses and children of couples...

...close relative already in the United States, said Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the U.S. ImmigrationandNaturalizationService and senior fellow for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington.Family...

...process goes, the less likely it is that people will return," said Doris Meissner, a former head of the ImmigrationandNaturalizationService.After years in the United States, immigrants establish roots.Advocates so far have successfully urged...

...the Dragon Slayer" for his stance against federal government overreach and persistent criticism of the ImmigrationandNaturalizationService, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Internal Revenue Service. In 1980, he wrote...

...the nearest border crossing to try again hours later.Doris Meissner, who headed the former U.S. ImmigrationandNaturalizationService in the 1990s, said the pilot program was an encouraging sign that that two governments are working together...

...Associated Press has learned.Karen Kraushaar, 55, filed the complaint while working as a spokeswoman at the ImmigrationandNaturalizationService in the Justice Department in late 2002 or early 2003, with the assistance of her lawyer, Joel Bennett...

...Answer: They can't. In fact, the benefits of the EB-5 economic development plan have gone to former ImmigrationandNaturalizationService officials who formed lucrative limited partnerships to cash in on their access, and to shady foreign...

...person might have a strong case but has waited years for a hearing because of the backlog, said former ImmigrationandNaturalizationService commissioner Dorris Meissner.Those who offered prosecutorial discretion don't have to accept, and...